Olympian Gabby Douglas Previews the 2016 Olympics

6/14/2013 12:22PM

Two-time U.S. Olympic gold-medalist Gabby Douglas opens up to WSJ's Lee Hawkins about her new book, "Raising the Bar" and her plans to attend college and become and actress, and gives an inside look at her training schedule for the 2016 Summer Games.

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Al ... fashionable eye patches and buy magazines ... and the sissy me and can be done twice as ... old as the boy ... get a hold of can be done with the ... noncash rankings ... okay so you you not at that point you ... know I now like minds and friends ... guy friends ... highlight any night of my own because I am ... not that I had a boyfriend next I can hang out as ... I have to travel for two weeks a comeback in the U N ... J who ... proceeded to go to your brother ... yet yet about the neither of them ... and we said in the book that he's been very protective and in the mentor of sorts he was with guests ... will can be ... I congratulate you on all your success they had yet been able to have someone of normalcy in your life ... Nokia but as you move forward in a move for you to ... continue the good things to do ... I ... and with Gabby Douglas Lee Hawkins will see next ...